- Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson and children became the most famous image of the Great Depression in the United States. Its one of the classic photographs of the 20th century, and is now an icon of resiliance in the face of adversity. --- From Wikipedia

- Susan
One of the most famous images in the upcoming Pulitzer exhibition at the Haggin will be the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi during World War II. Ironically, the photographer, Joe Rosenthal, had been rejected as a military photographer by the Army and Navy due to impaired eyesight. It was while serving as a combat photographer for the Associated Press that he was sent to the small P - Susan
Alfred Eisenstaedt worked as a photographer for Life magazine from 1936 to 1972. He is most renowned for his candid photographs, most of which he made using a 35mm Leica M3 rangefinder camera. His most famous photograph is of an American sailor kissing a young woman on V-J Day in Times Square in 1945. (The young woman is widely accepted to have been Edith Shain, although some sources say she was G - Susan
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon is a photograph taken by Eddie Adams on February 1, 1968 showing South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. The event was also captured by NBC News film cameras, but the Adams' image remains the defining image.
The photo won Adams the 1969 - xw
the last one is vivid, touching...
but we have a lot of them from china, isn't it?
war and peace, peace and war. is the war fighting for peace,
or the peace preparing wars ?
freedom is not free! -- a famous U.S slogan.
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Rosa Parks on a Montgomery bus on December 21, 1956, the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated. Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a UPI reporter covering the event.[Image] - Susan
This is pretty good chole! Post us some more...
- Susan
Sharbat Gula (born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman of Pashtun ethnicity. Her face became famous as a cover photograph on a 1985 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Gula was orphaned during the Soviet Union's bombing of Afghanistan. While at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984, her picture was taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Gula was one of the students in an - Susan
March 1993 Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan with intentions of documenting the local rebel movement. However, upon arriving and witnessing the horror of the famine crises Carter began to take photographs of starving victims. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while strug - 图åƒbias
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Tired already? You guys got really weak nerves! Ok, some classic posters coming up, so you won't have ²»ÐÒÉóÃÀÆ£ÀÍ.
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Enjoying it, keep posting. :)
- Susan
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I once had this poster on my wall. :)
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Are you that girl or that guy? :)
- QQ
I like all their expressions. vivid. :)
- Blue River
Enjoyed the pictures. Here are some I liked a lot.
PERU ¡ª A boy on the road to Cuzco, near Pisac, in the Valle Sagrado of the Urubamba River, May 1954.
PHOTO: Werner Bischof
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SAO PAULO, Brazil ¡ª 1960.
PHOTO: Rene Burri
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LE CAP, South Africa ¡ª 1984.
PHOTO: Ian Berry[Image] - Blue River
VIETNAM ¡ª The 10-year-old South Vietnamese soldier in this 1968 photo was known as "little tiger" for allegedly having killed his mother and teacher, two Viet Cong members.
PHOTO: Philip Jones Griffiths [Image] - Blue River
TEHRAN, Iran ¡ª Veiled women training in shooting on the outskirts of the city, 1986.
PHOTO: Jean Gaumy[Image] - Blue River
ITALY ¡ª The Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1990.
PHOTO: Martin Parr [Image] - Blue River
BURMA ¡ª The Shwe Pyi Daw Rock, a Buddhist holy site, is located 10 miles north of Kyakito and 150 miles from the capital, Rangoon.
PHOTO: Hiroji Kubota [Image] - Blue River
NEW YORK CITY ¡ª A llama in Times Square in 1957.
PHOTO: Inge Morath
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WUHAN, China ¡ª A statue of Mao Tse-tung in the large industrial center of Wuhan, Hubei province, on the Yangtze, 1971.
PHOTO: Marc Riboud[Image] - Blue River
TOKYO ¡ª Courtyard of the Meiji Temple blanketed in snow, 1951.
PHOTO: Werner Bischof[Image] - Susan
Thanks Blue River! Love this one, seems it is right out of poetry.
- Susan
Some fashion photographies...
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On June 8, 1972 a South Vietnamese aircraft accidentally dropped its napalm payload on the village of Trang Bang. With her clothes on fire, 9 year old Phan Thi Kim Phuc ran out of the village with her family to be airlifted to hospital.
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July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon - astronaut Buzz Aldrin planting an American flag.
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I also think the Meiji Temple is one of the very best by Bischof. Too bad he died so young (at age 38).
